Word: musee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...normal woman might cuddle a newborn babe, she dimples in maidenly dither at her gigolo's advances, she proceeds a moment later with hard-nosed efficiency to collect what she has paid for. She is a mascaraed monument to the era of the superstar, a veritable muse of publicity...
Moving with the Muse...
Your review, which comprehensively skimmed the subject from Auden to Zen (though how come no Stanley Kunitz, Pulitzer Prize Poet of 1959 and best of the bunch?) moves me to the muse. To all poets, published and unpublished (or nine-tenths of the human race...
...Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and Robert Frost-all of them still alive and writing, but not writing much. In the early '30s, the heirs of the revolution, led by Britain's W. H. Auden, turned to what Poet Archibald MacLeish called the "invocation to the social muse...
...pottery jars in which women of the day kept cosmetics and other personal treasures. One pyxis dug out of modern Greece's Wall Street contained a bronze mirror and the remains of some cosmetic cream. Most interesting find: a perfectly preserved pyxis showing six of the nine official muses of Greek mythology, and also an almost unknown muse. Choro, patron of the chorus of the Greek theater...